Evidence Action is a global nonprofit organization with an approach distinctive in international development: they exclusively scale interventions that are backed by strong evidence and can be delivered with exceptional cost-effectiveness. The MLE Strategy team optimizes Evidence Action’s evidence-based, cost-effective programming through versatile and right-fit monitoring and evaluation solutions and insights. 

The Senior Manager will play a key role in supporting Evidence Action’s DtWI and IFA Supplementation programs. They will manage the global MLE work for these programs with guidance from the DtWI and IFA Program Directors. This role will be located in Washington DC.

The full position description is online

IPUMS seeks a Data Analyst with a strong data-driven social science or public health background. The primary focus of this position is to produce web-based resources, interactive dashboards, reports, and data analysis resources applying international IPUMS health survey data for science and policy. Time is also allocated for coordinating related data analysis projects and timelines. Most of this research will employ data from countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This position is eligible for fully remote, hybrid, or fully onsite work arrangements.

Application Deadline: November 27, 2023

For complete details, see the online listing

The Cokie Roberts Research Fund for Women’s History will award up to $12,500 to support annual fellowships for applicants who will perform new research at the National Archives to elevate women’s history. The Fund will support one to three annual fellowships for emerging and established historians, journalists, authors, or graduate students who perform and publish new research to elevate women’s history using the records held by the National Archives. 

Application Window: November 1, 2023 through May 15, 2024

See the National Archives Foundation website for complete information.

RAND's Summer Associate Program introduces outstanding graduate students in sociology and demography or related fields to the RAND Corporation, an institution that conducts research on a wide range of domestic and international social policy issues as well as national security problems.

The summer 2024 program will be a hybrid model including in-person work at one of RAND’s four offices (including DC) with remote flexibility or working fully remote from where you live.

All applications are due by December 4, 2023.

For complete information, see the online listing.

The National Science Foundation is seeking qualified candidates for a Social Scientist (Program Director) within the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) in Alexandria, VA.

The Science, Technology and Innovation Analysis (STI-A) Program Director plans, administers, and evaluates the overall STI-A program area. This position oversees all of NCSES analysis products and staff, including the creation, production, and dissemination of two congressionally mandated reports: Science and Engineering Indicators and STEM and Diversity: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities.

Closing date for applications is November 27. The complete job listing is online.

Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) invites applications for a Public Health Pre-Faculty Fellow to be appointed as a full-time post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Public Health beginning in August 2024. This fellowship involves an initial three-year appointment subject to the successful outcome of annual reviews. They seek an active and engaged colleague with demonstrated research, teaching, and service interests in eliminating health disparities and social inequalities.

For complete information, see the online job listing

The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program provides U.S. educators in the arts, social sciences and humanities with opportunities to participate in short-term seminars abroad to improve their understanding and knowledge of the peoples and cultures of other countries. In 2024 summer seminars will be offered in Finland, Thailand, and Colombia.

Deadline to apply: January 4, 2024

Visit the program website for more information.

The AERA-NSF Grants Program is currently accepting proposals for both its Dissertation and Research Grants. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Program provides dissertation grants to graduate students and small research grants to doctoral level scholars using large-scale data sets in their research. The aim of the program is to advance fundamental knowledge of relevance to STEM education policy, foster significant science using education data, promote equity in STEM, and build research capacity in education and learning.

Proposal Deadline: November 20, 2023

Visit the program website for more information.

The Department of Health, Society, and Behavior at the University of California-Irvine Program in Public Health is seeking candidates interested in writing and policy structure for the position of Postdoctoral Fellow. This candidate will report to Dr. Bernadette Boden-Albala, and work within an interdisciplinary research group that focuses on cardio- and cerebrovascular health outcomes within multiethnic communities and utilizes community-engaged research principles. The postdoctoral scholar position is a full-time, 2-year position with the possibility of an extension conditional on satisfactory performance.

Applications will be reviewed beginning Friday, Nov 17, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Complete information is available here

The NSF Build and Broaden Program in the Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences will host its second annual program symposium on November 2 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm EST.

Build and Broaden aims to broaden participation in the social, behavioral and economic sciences through support for research, training and research infrastructure at minority-serving institutions, including partnerships with and among those institutions. 

More information about the program and symposium is available here.